Cinema for French Conversation (Fifth Edition)
Cinema for French Conversation, Fifth Edition, builds upon the strengths of previous editions of this pioneering textbook by devoting six new chapters to recent award-winning French-language films including La cour de Babel, Fatima, Ce qui nous lie, La famille Bélier, Diplomatie, and Intouchables. Each of the book’s eighteen chapters features key vocabulary for viewing its corresponding film, structured post-viewing exercises aimed at facilitating in-class discussion, related readings for each film designed to provide perspective, and much more. A (forthcoming) companion website offers links to film trailers, interviews, and other online resources. A proven aid for cultivating French-language conversation skills at the upper-intermediate and advanced levels, Anne-Christine Rice’s classic book yields rich insight into elements of historic and present-day French culture while fostering appreciation for France’s renowned septième art itself.
Films and Additional Online Resources Webpage: Click here for information about how to access the films covered in the textbook and to download additional online resource PDFs for each chapter.
Course Instructor Resources: An electronic (PDF only) instructor's manual for Cinema for French Conversation, Fifth Edition is available to qualified course instructors who have adopted the text for their course. Click here to request a copy.
SKU
98310g
Cinema for French Conversation, Fifth Edition, builds upon the strengths of previous editions of this pioneering textbook by devoting six new chapters to recent award-winning French-language films including La cour de Babel, Fatima, Ce qui nous lie, La famille Bélier, Diplomatie, and Intouchables. Each of the book’s eighteen chapters features key vocabulary for viewing its corresponding film, structured post-viewing exercises aimed at facilitating in-class discussion, related readings for each film designed to provide perspective, and much more. A (forthcoming) companion website offers links to film trailers, interviews, and other online resources. A proven aid for cultivating French-language conversation skills at the upper-intermediate and advanced levels, Anne-Christine Rice’s classic book yields rich insight into elements of historic and present-day French culture while fostering appreciation for France’s renowned septième art itself.
Course Instructor Resources: An electronic (PDF only) instructor's manual for Cinema for French Conversation, Fifth Edition is available to qualified course instructors who have adopted the text for their course. Click here to request a copy.
Click here
to visit the title support page for more film information and additional online resources.
Films and Additional Resources:
Films in bold are new to the 5th Edition. Access to the films is not included with the purchase of the textbook. Options for purchasing a DVD of or streaming films covered in the textbook are listed on the Cinema for French Conversation, Fifth Edition, title support page. As noted below, DVDs of some of the films, are available for sale directly from Hackett Publishing Company. Additional online resources, including links to YouTube videos, flashcard sets, and websites, are also available for free download (PDFs) on the title support page.
- Inch'Allah dimanche
- La cour de Babel
- Ressources humaines
- Joyeux Noël (DVD available for sale on the Hackett website)
- Fatima
- Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
- Ce qui nous lie
- La famille Bélier
- Ridicule
- La veuve de Saint-Pierre
- Les femmes du 6e étage (DVD available for sale on the Hackett website
- Welcome (DVD available for sale on the Hackett website)
- Au revoir les enfants
- 8 femmes
- Cyrano de Bergerac
- Diplomatie
- Molière (DVD available for sale on the Hackett website
- Intouchables
About the Author:
Anne-Christine Rice is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Romance Studies, Tufts University. She was the 2021 recipient of the ACTFL Nelson Brooks Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Culture and is also the author of La France contemporaine à travers ses films, available from Focus.
